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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker,…
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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…
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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.
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The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
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Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves
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Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
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A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire…
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In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.
— Plato
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Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief
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Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a…
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We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn…
— Donald Trump
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This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the…
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